David Sulzer (born November 6, 1956) is an American neuroscientist and musician. He is a professor at

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in the departments of

psychiatry Psychiatry is the specialty (medicine), medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psych ...

neurology Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal ...

, and pharmacology. Sulzer's laboratory investigates the interaction between the synapses of the

cerebral cortex The cerebral cortex, also known as the cerebral mantle, is the outer layer of neural tissue of the cerebrum of the brain in humans and other mammals. The cerebral cortex mostly consists of the six-layered neocortex, with just 10% consistin ...

and the

basal ganglia The basal ganglia (BG), or basal nuclei, are a group of subcortical nuclei, of varied origin, in the brains of vertebrates. In humans, and some primates, there are some differences, mainly in the division of the globus pallidus into an exter ...

, including the dopamine system, in habit formation, planning, decision making, and diseases of the system. His lab has developed the first means to optically measure neurotransmission, and has introduced new hypotheses of neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease, and changes in synapses that produce autism and habit learning. Under the stage name Dave Soldier, he is known as a composer and musician in a variety of genres including

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, classical, and

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Scientific contributions

Studies on synapses

Sulzer works on basal ganglia and dopamine neurons, brain cells of central importance in translating will to action. His team have introduced new methods to study synapses, including the first means to measure the fundamental "quantal" unit of neurotransmitter release from central synapses. They reported the first direct recordings of

quantal neurotransmitter release Neurotransmitters are released into a synapse in packaged Vesicle (biology and chemistry), vesicles called quanta. One quantum generates what is known as a miniature end plate potential (MEPP) which is the smallest amount of stimulation that one neu ...

from brain synapses using an

electrochemistry Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between electrical potential difference, as a measurable and quantitative phenomenon, and identifiable chemical change, with the potential difference as an outco ...

technique known as

amperometry Amperometry in chemistry is detection of ions in a solution based on electric current or changes in electric current. Amperometry is used in electrophysiology to study vesicle release events using a carbon fiber electrode. Unlike patch clamp tec ...

, based on the method of Mark Wightman, a chemist at the

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, to measure release of

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from adrenal

chromaffin cells Chromaffin cells, also called pheochromocytes (or phaeochromocytes), are neuroendocrine cells found mostly in the medulla of the adrenal glands in mammals. These cells serve a variety of functions such as serving as a response to stress, monitor ...

. They showed that the quantal event at dopamine synapses consisted of the release of about 3,000 dopamine molecules in about 100 nanoseconds. They further showed that the quantal events could "flicker" due to extremely rapid opening and closing of the a synaptic vesicle fusion pore (at rates as high as 4,000 times a second) with the plasma membrane. This approach also demonstrated that the "size" of the quanta could be altered in numerous ways, for example by the drug

L-DOPA -DOPA, also known as levodopa and -3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, is an amino acid that is made and used as part of the normal biology of some plants and animals, including humans. Humans, as well as a portion of the other animals that utilize -DOPA ...

, a drug so used to treat

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...

. Sulzer's lab, together with that of Dalibor Sames, a chemist at

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, introduced "fluorescent false neurotransmitters", compounds that accumulated like genuine neurotransmitters into neurons and

synaptic vesicles In a neuron, synaptic vesicles (or neurotransmitter vesicles) store various neurotransmitters that are released at the synapse. The release is regulated by a voltage-dependent calcium channel. Vesicles are essential for propagating nerve impulse ...

. This is used to observe neurotransmitter release and reuptake from individual synapses in video. Sulzer, along with his mentor Stephen Rayport, showed that the neurotransmitter glutamate is released from dopamine neurons, an important exception to the

Dale's principle In neuroscience, Dale's principle (or Dale's law) is a rule attributed to the English neuroscientist Henry Hallett Dale. The principle basically states that a neuron performs the same chemical action at all of its synaptic connections to other c ...

that a neuron releases the same transmitter from each of its synapses.

Addictive drugs

By introducing the "weak base hypothesis" of amphetamine action, for measuring amphetamine's effects on the quantal size of dopamine release, intracellular patch electrochemistry to measure dopamine levels in the cytosol, and providing real-time measurement of dopamine release by reverse transport, Sulzer's lab showed how amphetamine and methamphetamine release dopamine and other neurotransmitters and exert their synaptic and clinical effects. They showed how methamphetamine neurotoxicity occurs due to dopamine-derived oxidative stress in the cytosol followed by induction of autophagy, and with Nigel Bamford of the

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, how these drugs activate long-term changes in the cortical synapses that project to the striatum. They call these "chronic postsynaptic depression" and "paradoxical presynaptic potentiation", which may explain drug dependence and

addiction Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to engage in certain behaviors, one of which is the usage of a drug, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences. Repetitive drug use o ...

. Sulzer explains in an interview on '' NOVA'' that his interest in understanding mechanisms of addiction stem from crashing a talk by

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at Naropa Institute in 1980, where Burroughs claimed that new synthetic opiates would be so powerful that users would become addicts with a single dose. In an interview in ''

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'' on his lab's discovery of the mechanism by which nicotine filters synaptic noise and can focus attention to tasks, he recalls his father's early death due to smoking, saying "if some idiot or drug company is going to twist things around, the only thing that would come out of his researchthat I'd be horrified by is if people used it to advocate smoking. I think it would be a real travesty if that happened."

Neurological and psychiatric disease

Sulzer and his lab also studied nerve impulses in

Parkinson's Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...

and Huntington's diseases, schizophrenia, drug addiction, and autism. They helped to establish the role of autophagy by

lysosomes A lysosome () is a membrane-bound organelle found in many animal cells. They are spherical vesicles that contain hydrolytic enzymes that can break down many kinds of biomolecules. A lysosome has a specific composition, of both its membrane prote ...

in neuronal disease. They showed the role of

neuromelanin Neuromelanin (NM) is a dark pigment found in the brain which is structurally related to melanin. It is a polymer of 5,6-dihydroxyindole monomers. Neuromelanin is found in large quantities in catecholaminergic cells of the substantia nigra pars com ...

, the pigment of the substantia nigra, in methamphetamine neurotoxicity, and Huntington's disease. With

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they showed that a cause of Parkinson's disease could be due to an interference with a chaperone-mediated autophagy caused by the protein

alpha-synuclein Alpha-synuclein is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the ''SNCA'' gene. Alpha-synuclein is a neuronal protein that regulates synaptic vesicle trafficking and subsequent neurotransmitter release. It is abundant in the brain, while smaller a ...

. His work indicates that a lack of normal pruning of synapses could underlie the development of autism, and that in turn may also my due to inhibited neuronal autophagy in patients, due to overactivation of the

mTOR The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), also referred to as the mechanistic target of rapamycin, and sometimes called FK506-binding protein 12-rapamycin-associated protein 1 (FRAP1), is a kinase that in humans is encoded by the ''MTOR'' gene. ...

pathway during childhood and adolescence. In 2017, his lab introduced the role of autoimmune response in Parkinson's disease patients, which answers a century-old mystery on the role of immune system activation in that disorder. The Sulzer lab has published over 200 papers on this research. For his work, Sulzer has received awards from the

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, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and

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. He ran the Basic Neuroscience NIH / NIDA (T32) training program for postdoctoral research in basic neuroscience at Columbia. He received a Ph.D. in biology from Columbia University in 1988. He founded the Gordon Conference on Parkinson's Disease, the Dopamine Society (with Louis-Eric Trudeau) and the journal Nature Parkinson's Disease (with Ray Chaudhuri).

Awards and honors

2020 - Youdim / Finberg Award, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 2020 - Raymond D. Adams Lecture, Harvard University, Mass General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2019 - Distinguished Lecture in Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, USA 2017 - Presidential Lecture, Society of Neuroimmune Pharmacology 2013 - Helmsley Award for Scientific Research 2012 - Keynote Lecture in Cellular Neuroscience, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 2008 - McKnight Award in Neuroscience for Technical Innovation 1996 - James T. Shannon Award, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, USA

Art and Science projects

Sulzer wrote a book on scientific principles that underlie music and sound
Music Math and Mind
olumbia University Press 2021), and teaches a related course at

on the physics and neuroscience of music and sound. He co-ran the original science cafe, "Entertaining Science" from 2012 to 2019, with its founder (2002), chemist and writer

Roald Hoffmann Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at ...

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at the

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. With

Brad Garton Brad Garton (born 1957) is an American composer and computer musician who is professor of music at Columbia University. He has written, or helped to write, a number of computer music applications, including Real-Time Cmix, music synthesis and si ...

, he developed the "Brainwave Music Project", which allows users to create music from neural activity and enable teaching on brain function.

Music

Sulzer uses the alias, Dave Soldier, for his alternate career in music.

Music by animals

Many of Soldier's works are collaborative, such as with the

Thai Elephant Orchestra The Thai Elephant Orchestra is a musical ensemble consisting of as many as fourteen Thai elephants near Lampang in Northern Thailand. The elephants play music, essentially as conducted improvisations, on specially designed heavy-duty musical ins ...

which he co-founded with conservationist Richard Lair, based on the observation that elephants are said to enjoy listening to music. This ensemble consists of up to 14 elephants at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center near

Lampang Lampang, also called Nakhon Lampang ( th, นครลำปาง, ) to differentiate from Lampang province, is the third largest city in northern Thailand and capital of Lampang province and the Mueang Lampang district. Traditional names for L ...

, and is listed by Guinness as the world's largest animal orchestra, with a combined weight of approximately 23 tonnes (50,706 lb). He built giant musical instruments on which he trained the elephants to improvise: they eventually played on 22 instruments. The orchestra has released three CDs and play an abbreviated concert daily at the Conservation Center. He also created specially designed instruments for music played by

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es and bonobos, the latter in collaborations with physicist Gordon Shaw, who researched classical music's effect on the brain and introduced the

Mozart effect The Mozart effect is the theory that listening to the music of Mozart may temporarily boost scores on one portion of an IQ test. Popular science versions of the theory make the claim that "listening to Mozart makes you smarter" or that early childh ...

Music by children

Soldier has made multiple recordings in which he coached child composers in different cultures. He and flutist Katie Down coached free improvisation with The Tangerine Awkestra featuring 2-10 year old Brooklyn schoolchildren. Da HipHop Raskalz featured rap and dub tracks performed (including the instrumental tracks) by 5-10 year old East Harlem children, who had no previous experience playing instruments. Sulzer and the santur player Alan Kushan produced Yol K'u with Mayan Indian children from the Seeds of Knowledge School in the high mountains of San Mateo Ixtatan, Guatemala, a collaboration using giant marimbas. He produced two CDs by Les Enfants des Tyabala, with the jazz musician Sylvian Leroux who coached children in Conakry, Guinea to form an ensemble and create works with the traditional Fula flute, which Leroux has adapted to play chromatic scales.

The Soldier String Quartet

In 1985 he founded the

Soldier String Quartet The Soldier String Quartet was a string quartet, founded by composer and violinist Dave Soldier, that specialized in performing a fusion of classical and popular music. The quartet proved a training ground for many subsequent experimental classical ...

, a punk chamber group that plays with amplification and a percussionist. As a leader, composer and violinist for the group, Soldier wrote and performed traditional pieces influenced by music styles including serialism, Delta blues and hip-hop. With inspiration from

Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led ...

and

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...

quartets, he explored anachronisms stemming from a classical ensemble playing in contemporary popular idioms, particularly rhythm and blues and punk rock. With a drummer incorporated into the quartet, Soldier found that string instruments could play the blues in the hands of players who understood the contrasting styles, including violinists

Regina Carter Regina Carter (born August 6, 1966) is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of jazz saxophonist James Carter. Early life Carter was born in Detroit and was one of three children in her family. She began piano lessons at the age of t ...

and Todd Reynolds. The Soldier String Quartet also premiered and recorded works by other composers such as

Elliott Sharp Elliott Sharp (born March 1, 1951) is an American contemporary classical composer, multi-instrumentalist, and performer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released ...

Iannis Xenakis Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; el, Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde c ...

, Alvin Curran,

Nicolas Collins Nicolas Collins (born March 26, 1954 in New York City) is a composer of mostly electronic music, a sound artist and writer. He received his BA and MA from Wesleyan University, and his PhD from the University of East Anglia. Upon graduating from ...

, Butch Morris,

Zeena Parkins Zeena Parkins (born 1956) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist active in experimental, free improvised, contemporary classical, and avant-jazz music; she is known for having "reinvented the harp". Parkins performs on standard har ...

, Leroy Jenkins and

Phill Niblock Phill Niblock (born October 2, 1933 in Anderson, Indiana) is an American composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia,Alan Licht, ''Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020'', Blank Forms ...

, as well as with jazz musicians including Tony Williams and

Amina Claudine Myers Amina Claudine Myers (born March 21, 1942) is an American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and arranger. Biography Born in Blackwell, Arkansas, "Myers was brought up largely by her great-aunt, a schoolteacher, and her great-uncle, a c ...

. They recorded with the rock and pop musicians Guided by Voices, Lambchop,

Bob Neuwirth Robert John Neuwirth (June 20, 1939May 18, 2022) was an American folk singer, songwriter, record producer, and visual artist. He was noted for being the road manager and associate of Bob Dylan, as well as the co-writer of Janis Joplin's hit s ...

Ric Ocasek Richard Theodore Otcasek (March 23, 1944 – September 15, 2019), known as Ric Ocasek, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was the primary co-lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and frontman for the rock ...

Van Dyke Parks Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer who has composed various film and television soundtracks. He is best known for his 1967 album ''Song Cycle'' and for his collaborations with ...

, and

Jesse Harris Jesse Harris (born October 24, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, producer, and guitarist. He has worked with Norah Jones, Melody Gardot, Madeleine Peyroux, Nikki Yanofsky, and Lizz Wright. Early life and education Harris and his twin si ...

and were the touring and recording group for the

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's John Cale from 1992 to 1998.

Experimental music

With Komar & Melamid, and inspired by their art project, " The People's Choice", Soldier wrote "The People's Choice: Music", with lyrics by Nina Mankin. It was written according to answers from a survey of over 500 Americans, resulting in "The Most Wanted Song" and "

The Most Unwanted Song "The Most Unwanted Song" is an avant-garde novelty song created by artists Komar and Melamid and composer Dave Soldier in 1997. The song was written to incorporate lyrical and musical elements that were disliked by most respondents to a poll, inc ...

". The latter is over 22 minutes in length and features an operatic soprano rapping cowboy songs, holiday songs with a children's choir screaming advertisements, and political rants backed by bagpipe, banjo, tuba, piccolo, and church organ. Soldier collaborates with the

computer music Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs. It includes the theory and ...

ian

for the Brainwave Music Project, creating music played by performer's brainwaves using

electroencephalogram Electroencephalography (EEG) is a method to record an electrogram of the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain. The biosignals detected by EEG have been shown to represent the postsynaptic potentials of pyramidal neurons in the neocortex ...

s. He has a body of compositions using math derivations such as fractal manipulations, including a notorious 20 minute version of Chopin's Minute Waltz.

Concert music

Soldier's compositions with classical musicians include a socialist-realist opera, "Naked Revolution", based on paintings by the Russian conceptual artists

Komar and Melamid Komar and Melamid (pronunciation: ''Kómar and Melamíd'') is a tandem team of Russian-born American conceptualist artists Vitaly Komar (born 1943) and Alexander Melamid (born 1945). In an artists' statement they said that "even if only one of us ...

, commissioned for the 25th anniversary of "The Kitchen". The opera "The Eighth Hour of Amduat" uses as its text Italian translations of the ancient Egyptian of the book of

Amduat The Amduat ( egy, jmj dwꜣt, literally "That Which Is In the Afterworld", also translated as "Text of the Hidden Chamber Which is in the Underworld" and "Book of What is in the Underworld"; ar, كتاب الآخرة, Kitab al-Akhira) is an imp ...

and features

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of the

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playing the part of

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. Soldier wrote two chamber operas in collaboration with author

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, "The Soldier's Story" and "Ice-9 Ballads", both recorded with Vonnegut playing characters in the operas. Many of his chamber and orchestra works were recorded by the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra under conductor

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and by the Composer's Concordance orchestra. These include a collection of early Latin homoerotic lyrics in "Smut", and settings of

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in "The Apotheosis of John Brown" and Mark Twain in "War Prayer". The orchestra fanfare, "Samul Nori Overture", was commissioned by

Kristjan Järvi Kristjan Järvi (, alternate (U.S.) spelling: Kristian Järvi) (born 13 June 1972, Tallinn) is an Estonian American conductor, composer and producer born in Estonia, younger son of the conductor Neeme Järvi and brother of conductor Paavo Järv ...

and the Absolute Ensemble. Chamber works by Soldier have been recorded by violinists

and

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, cellist

Erik Friedlander Erik Friedlander is an American cellist and composer based in New York City. A veteran of New York City's experimental downtown scene, Friedlander has worked in many contexts, but is perhaps best known for his frequent collaborations with sax ...

, pianists Steven Beck, Taka Kigawa and

Christopher O'Riley Christopher O'Riley is an American classical pianist and public radio show host. He was the host of the weekly National Public Radio program '' From the Top''. O'Riley is also known for his piano arrangements of songs by alternative. Early life ...

, accordionist

William Schimmel William Schimmel (born 1946) is one of the principal architects in the resurgence of the accordion, and the philosophy of "Musical Reality" (composition with pre-existing music). He holds Bachelor of Music, Master of Science and Doctor of Musical ...

, the PubliQuartet, singer

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, the choir Ekemeles, and flutist

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Rock music

Soldier performed in the early 1980s with

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and founded

The Kropotkins The Kropotkins are an American avant-garde music collective based in Memphis and New York City founded in 1994 by drummer Jonathan Kane and Dave Soldier, who is best known as a violinist but plays banjo in the group. Its other members have includ ...

in the 1990s, a punk/country blues band with the Memphis singer Lorette Velvette and the drummers drummer,

Moe Tucker Maureen Ann "Moe" Tucker (born August 26, 1944) is an American musician and singer-songwriter who was the drummer for the New York City-based rock band the Velvet Underground. After they disbanded in the early 1970s, she left the music industry ...

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of the James Blood Ulmer's Odyssey Band, and Jonathan Kane of

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and La Monte Young's band; the Kropotkins recorded four albums and developed a cult following. He continued collaborations with Jonathan Kane in a symphonic minimalist blues duo known as Soldier Kane. In the early 1980s, Soldier played guitar with

and various rock groups. He later worked as an arranger, violinist, or guitarist with John Cale, Guided by Voices,

, David Byrne,

Lee Ranaldo Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, writer, visual artist and record producer, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth (guitar and vocals). In 2004, ''Rolling ...

Maureen Tucker Maureen Ann "Moe" Tucker (born August 26, 1944) is an American musician and singer-songwriter who was the drummer for the New York City-based rock band the Velvet Underground. After they disbanded in the early 1970s, she left the music industry ...

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, the Plastic People of the Universe,

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Richard Hell Richard Lester Meyers (born October 2, 1949), better known by his stage name Richard Hell, is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and writer. Hell was in several important early punk rock bands, including Neon Boys, Television and ...

, and

. Soldier led the touring group for John Cale, consisting of the

and B. J. Cole from 1992 to 1996, writing the groups arrangements for tours and several CDs and films including for Cale's scores for the

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films "Eat" and "Kiss": his metal violin playing is featured on "Heartbreak Hotel" on

Fragments of a Rainy Season ''Fragments of a Rainy Season'' is a 1992 live solo album by John Cale, performed at various locations during his 1992 tour. A 16-track DVD, recorded at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts, now BOZAR) in Brussels, Belgium, ...

. He led an flamenco/Middle Eastern rock group, The Spinozas, featuring lyrics from Arabic and Hebrew poetry from medieval

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released on the album "Zajal".

Jazz

Soldier performs as a multi-instrumentalist with the William Hooker Trio with

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and Roy Campbell, and has performed and recorded with Leroy Jenkins,

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, drummer Tony Williams,

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, Butch Morris,

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, Billy Bang,

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and

Production

Soldier co-founded the EEG Records (formerly

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) label in 2000, for which he has produced a wide variety of recordings including contemporary

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music by Pedro Cortes, Texas singer/ songwriter

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with

, the 30 piece jazz string orchestra Spontaneous River by

, jazz drummer William Hooker, the traditional group Wofa from Guinea with American R&B musicians including

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; the jazz French horn virtuoso

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, and released music by

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, two albums of Fula flute music by Sylvain Leroux with children in Conakry, Guinea, Memphis musician Alex Greene, Ursel Schlicht, and Twink.

Personal life

Sulzer grew up in Carbondale in southern Illinois where he was exposed to music common to the area, particularly country and R&B. His earliest influences included James Brown and Isaac Hayes. He played viola, violin, piano, and eventually banjo and guitar. He moved with his family to Storrs, CT, at the age of 16, where he became enamoured with salsa music. He credits

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's music as his inspiration to be a composer. He attended Michigan State University as an undergraduate and attempted a study of classical composition. He found that stultifying, however, and instead studied botany at the university and privately with the avant-garde jazz saxophonist/composer Roscoe Mitchell. He lived in Florida briefly, where he played guitar in

's band. He relocated to New York in 1981, and played in various salsa, classical, and rock-oriented bands in the early '80s. In New York he engaged in many collaborations with producer

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, including running "The House Band", the Russian conceptual artists

, and co-wrote two extended musical theater pieces with author

. While attending graduate school in biology at Columbia University, he privately studied composition with the co-inventor of the synthesizer and "tape music"

Otto Luening Otto Clarence Luening (June 15, 1900 – September 2, 1996) was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music. Luening was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to German parents, Eugene, a conduct ...

and formed his

in 1985. He co-founded

in 2000 to document his projects, including the Thai Elephant Orchestra and recordings with child improvisers, and to produce a broad range of unusual musical styles. Soldier performed, recorded, composed, and arranged for television and film (''

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'', ''

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''), and pop and jazz acts ranging from

to David Byrne and Guided by Voices. In 2021, his book "Music, Math, and Mind" on the physics and neuroscience of music was published by Columbia University Press. Sulzer is married to biologist Francesca Bartolini.

Discography

Studio Albums as Leader * 1988 ''Sequence Girls'':

* 1990 ''Romances From the Second Line'' piano music performed by

* 1991 ''Sojourner Truth'':

* 1993 ''The Apotheosis of John Brown: oratorio with libretto from Frederick Douglass * 1994 ''War Prayer''; with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra with libretto from Mark Twain * 1994 ''Smut''; with medieval Latin lyric poetry * 1996 ''She's Lightning When She Smiles'':

* 1997 ''The People's Choice: Music'' with Komar & Melamid: the Most Wanted and

s * 1997 ''Jazz Standards on Mars'':

with

* 2000 ''The Tangerine Awkestra'': with Katie Down and children from Fort Greene, Brooklyn * 2001 ''

'' * 2001 ''Ice-9 Ballads'': with

as narrator and lyricist * 2004 ''Elephonic Rhapsodies'': with the

* 2004 ''Inspect for Damaged Gods'':

* 2005 ''Soldier Stories'': with

as actor and librettist * 2006 ''Da Hiphop Raskalz'': with children from East Harlem * 2006 ''Chamber Music'': classical works for small ensembles, double CD * 2008 ''Yol K'u'' (Inside the Sun): Mayan Mountain Music with children from San Mateo Ixtatan, Guatemala * 2011 ''Water Music'': with the

* 2011 ''The Complete Victrola Sessions'': works for violin and piano with

Rebecca Cherry Rebecca, ; Aramaic, Syriac: , ) from the Hebrew (lit., 'connection'), from Semitic root , 'to tie, couple or join', 'to secure', or 'to snare') () appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to ...

* 2012 ''Organum'': solo organ works inspired by patterns in nature, performed by Walter Hilse * 2015 ''In Black & White'': solo piano works, double CD, performed by Steven Beck * 2015 ''In Four Color'': music for string quartet, performed by the

and the PUBLIQuartet * 2015 ''Smash Hits by the Thai Elephant Orchestra'': with Richard Lair and

* 2015 ''With Kurt Vonnegut'': radio opera and song cycle with

's narration and libretti, and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra * 2016 ''Soldier Kane'': duos composed and performed by Dave Soldier with Jonathan Kane * 2016 ''Dean Swift's Satyrs for the Very Very Young'': featuring singer

, Soldier's music for lyrics by

Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dubl ...

* 2016 ''The Eighth Hour of Amduat'': opera for mezzo, choir, and orchestra featuring saxophonist

playing

* 2017 ''History of the Kropotkins'' songs performed by the

Kropotkins The Kropotkins are an American avant-garde music collective based in Memphis and New York City founded in 1994 by drummer Jonathan Kane and Dave Soldier, who is best known as a violinist but plays banjo in the group. Its other members have included ...

* 2017 ''The Brainwave Music Project''; with

Margaret Lancaster Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Indo-Iranian languages, Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and r ...

, William Hooker, Dan Trueman, Terry Pender, compositions for improvisers and brainwaves * 2018 ''Naked Revolution'': a socialist realist opera based on immigrant dreams, with artists

and Russian singers * 2019 ''Zajal'': songs from ancient Andalusia in medieval Arabic, Hebrew and Spanish with flamenco, middle eastern, salsa and jazz musicians * 2019 ''Jaleo'': solo piano performed by Steven Beck * 2021 ''February Meets Soldier String Quartet'': duos composed and performed by Dave Soldier with Jonathan Kane * 2021 ''Calo: solo violin works in flamenco forms performed by

with additional percussion by Jose Moreno and Pedro Cortes * 2022 ''Motet: Harmonies of the World'': choir in just intonation performed by Ekmeles according to the book by

Harmonices Mundi ''Harmonice Mundi (Harmonices mundi libri V)''The full title is ''Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mundi libri V'' (''The Five Books of Johannes Kepler's The Harmony of the World''). (Latin: ''The Harmony of the World'', 1619) is a book by Johannes ...

also known as

Music of the Spheres The ''musica universalis'' (literally universal music), also called music of the spheres or harmony of the spheres, is a philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies – the Sun, Moon, and planets – as a fo ...

by Johannes Kepler with lyrics by Proclus * 2022 ''LeWitt Etudes'': experiments in group composition, co-led with William Hooker, featuring Etudes 7. 9. 16. 24, 39, 40, 43, 45, 48 with Luke Stewart,

Kirk Knuffke Kirk is a Scottish and former Northern English word meaning "church". It is often used specifically of the Church of Scotland. Many place names and personal names are also derived from it. Basic meaning and etymology As a common noun, ''kirk' ...

, Rebecca Cherry, Alex Greene, Ken Filiano, Hans Tammen, Ishito Ayumi Collaborations * 1996 ''The Kropotkins''; performer, composer * 2000 the

, ''Five Points Crawl''; performer, composer * 2009 the

, ''Paradise Square''; performer, composer * 2015 the

, ''Portents of Love''; performer, composer * 1997

with the

, ''Jazz Standards on Mars'': performer, arranger * Arranger, performer: John Cale, "Fragments From a Rainy Season", CD * Arranger, conductor: John Cale, "Paris S'Eveille", CD * Arranger, conductor: John Cale, "Antarida", CD * Arranger, performer: John Cale, " "Walking on Locusts" CD * Arranger: John Cale, "Dance Music" CD * Arranger:

composed by John Cale " Eat/Kiss: Music for the Films by Andy Warhol" CD * Arranger: Christina Rosenvinge "Foreign Land" CD * Arranger, performer: Guided by Voices "Isolation Drills", CD * Arranger, performer: Guided by Voices "Hold on Hope", CD * Arranger, performer: Guided by Voices "Do the Collapse" CD Recordings with the Soldier String Quartet *''Last Day on Earth'';

, John Cale *''Walking on Locusts'', John Cale *''Eat and Kiss'', John Cale *''Fragments From a Rainy Season'', John Cale *''Hammer Anvil Stirrup'',

*''Larynx'', Elliott Sharp *''Tessalation Row'', Elliott Sharp *''Twistmap'', Elliott Sharp *''Abstract Repressionism'', Elliott Sharp *''Cryptoid Fragments'', Elliott Sharp *''Xeno-Codex'', Elliott Sharp *''Rheo/Umbra'', Elliott Sharp *''String Quartets 1986-1996'', Elliott Sharp *''Early Winter'',

*'' Themes & Improvisations on the Blues'', Leroy Jenkins *''A Dark & Stormy Night'',

*''The Word'',

& Tony Williams *''Third Stone from the Sun'',

Sideman * The Ordinaires The Ordinaires (1987, Dossier) violin * Lorette Velvette Lost Part of Me (1998, Veracity) banjo, violin *

& Carbon Larynx (1987, SST) violin *

& John Cale "Last Day on Earth" arranger, performer * Le Nouvelles Polyponies Corses (Corsican Polyphony) Le Praiduisu (1999, Mercury) violin, arranger *

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Madman of God (1999, Crammed Disc) violin, remixed by

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as Shy Angels (2008) *''While the Music Lasts'',

* William Hooker Trio''Yearn For Certainty'': performer, trio with

2010 * William Hooker Trio ''Heart of the Sun'': performer, trio with

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2013 * William Hooker ''Aria'': performer, arranger 2016 * Mandeng Eletrik (2004, Mulatta) violin * Elliott Sharp & Carbon Abstract Repressionism, violin (1992, Victo) violin * Elliott Sharp & Carbon Syndakit, violin (1999, Zoar) violin Film Scores * Arranger: John Cale film scores: "Paris S'Eveille", "Antarida", "Walking on Locusts", "Dance Music" * Arranger: films by

composed by John Cale " Eat/Kiss: Music for the Films by Andy Warhol" * Arranger, Conductor:

Mary Harron Mary Harron (born January 12, 1953) is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, and former entertainment critic. She gained recognition for her role in writing and directing several independent films, including '' I Shot Andy Warhol'' (1996), ''Am ...

director'' film score

'' * Arranger:

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director, film score ''

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'' * Composer: Vanessa Ly, director, film score ''Mekong Interior'' * Composer: Nadia Roden, director, cartoon scores ''

'' * Composer: Winsome Brown, director, film score ''The Violinist'' * Composer: Vicki Bennett, director, film score (partial) ''Gesture Piece'' * Composer:

Dave Soldier David Sulzer (born November 6, 1956) is an American neuroscientist and musician. He is a professor at Columbia University Medical Center in the departments of psychiatry, neurology, and pharmacology. Sulzer's laboratory investigates the interact ...

, director, animation ''The Eighth Hour of Amduat'' * Composer: Deborah Kampmeier, director, film score (partial), "Hounddog" * Composer: Kate Taverna, Alan Adleson, directors, film score, "In Bed with Ulysses" * Performer:

, director, "China" Producer * Jason Kao Hwang and Spontaneous River Orchestra ''Symphony of Souls'' CD, Mulatta Records, 2013 * Pedro Cortes ''Los Viejos Non Mueren'' CD, Mulatta Records, 2014 * Sylvain Leroux with children from Conakry, Guinea ''Les Enfants de Tyabala'' and ''Tyabla'' CDs, Mulatta Records, 2015, 2019 * Archer Spade ''Orbital Harmony'' CD, Mulatta Records, 2015 * William Hooker ''Aria'': performer, producer, 2016 * John Clark ''Sonus Inenarrabilis'' (Mulatta Records), works for 9 piece chamber group, CD, Mulatta Records, 2016 *

and Ulrike Lentz ''Are There?'' (Mulatta Records), flute duos CD, Mulatta Records, 2017 *

''Ojo'' (Mulatta Records), co-production with

, Mulatta Records, 2018 * William Hooker ''Pillars ... at the Portal'', Multatta Records, 2018

Compositions for Classical Musicians

References

Additional sources

* Ratcliff, Carter. ''Komar and Melamid'', New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. * Wypijewski, JoAnn, ed. ''Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art'', New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997. * Komar and Melamid. ''When Elephants Paint: The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thailand'', New York: HarperCollins, 2000. * Weiss, Evelyn. ''Komar & Melamid: The Most Wanted and the Most Unwanted Painting'', Museum Ludwig Koln, Ostfildern: Cantz, 1997.

External links

Sulzer lab, Columbia University: homepageThe Department of Neuroscience , DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSCIENCEEntertaining Science – The Back Story
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Dave Soldier Music BlogBrainwave Music Project
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Interviews

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